What is Agroecology?

Agroecology is farming with nature – not against it – to produce healthy food while protecting the land, supporting farmers, and connecting producers and consumers. It means growing and providing nutritious, diverse foods and feeding communities in a way that ensures fairness, strengthens resilience, and sustains the planet. More than a farming method – those that support agroecology are a global movement for food systems that are fair, local, democratic, and rooted in care.

1. Agroecology cares for the land, animals, and people – all at once. It creates productive, resilient farms by using natural cycles, local seeds, and healthy soils; protecting biodiversity; and wasting nothing.

2. It produces food that’s good for people, fair to farmers, and kind to the planet. It nourishes communities, restores nature, helps tackle climate crisis, improves yields, reduces costs, and creates decent jobs in food and farming.

3. Agroecology helps local economies flourish and ensures everyone can eat well. It’s about enterprises, consumers, and communities working together to grow and access diverse, seasonal, and healthy food – produced locally and distributed fairly. It brings farmers and eaters closer together – rebuilding trust, creating jobs, and reviving local economies.

4. It puts producers at the centre. Farmers and producers, especially fisherfolk, women, Indigenous peoples, pastoralists, and young people, hold essential knowledge and co-create solutions for thriving food systems.

5. It puts power back in people’s hands. Agroecology stands for fairness, championing the rights of smallholder producers, women, youth, and marginalized communities – and securing land rights, fair wages, and community control over resources.

6. A practical, proven way to feed communities. While agroecology is proven to restore soil and biodiversity, and provide abundant diverse foods; industrial food production relies on toxic chemicals, monocultures, and fossil fuels to produce ultra processed commodities that harm health and ecosystems.

7. More than a farming method – a global movement. Millions of farmers, food workers, communities, researchers, activists and governments are coming together to build food systems that are fair, democratic, local, and rooted in care. To realise its full potential, this movement needs major investment and long-term support.

We've put together a one-pager that combines the principles of both the Agroecology and Food Sovereignty Movement that underpin the transformational levels of change we focusing on supporting through Farming the Future.

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FtF_Agroecology One Pager.pdf

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